Wendy's refuses to help abused tomato pickers
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For the last 20 years, there’s been a quiet revolution in the tomato fields of Florida. A group of immigrant farmworkers called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (or CIW) has been organizing to eradicate human rights abuses, like wage theft, sexual assault and in extreme cases, modern slavery which...
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Paul Hellyer: 2 extraterrestrials work with US government
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Four advanced races of ET beings have been visiting our planet for thousands of years, says Hellyer. He has written several books on Canada and globalization, including One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent, in which he promoted the merger of the CAP, NDP and various left-wing activists to save ...
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Nestlé wants to patent nature: a fennel flower
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Nigella sativa -- more commonly known as fennel flower -- has been used as a cure-all remedy for over a thousand years. It treats everything from vomiting to fevers to skin diseases, and has been widely available in impoverished communities across the Middle East and Asia. But now Nestlé is claiming...
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Baglow vs. Smith and online defamation in the blogosphere
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Baglow v. Smith arose out of a dispute between two ideologically opposed bloggers. John Baglow, who blogs as Dr. Dawg, repeatedly argued that the detention of Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay violated international law. In 2010, blogger Roger Smith responded by referring to Baglo...
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Rich suckers abound in Vancouver more than TO
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Vancouver has unseated Toronto, as Canada's Sugar Daddy capital. SeekingArrangement.com, calls itself the world’s largest Sugar Daddy dating website, experienced a 71 percent increase in the number of total Sugar Daddies joining in the past year, inspiring a national study that revealed The “Top Cit...
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Pipeline threatens health of thousands
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This is what a resident of the small town of Mayflower, Arkansas said after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured and her entire neighbourhood was blanketed in thick, toxic tar sands: “I couldn't breathe. My throat and nose and eyes were burning really
bad. I could smell that horrible smell. I got reall...
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Big telecom? More like big brother in little canada
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I am writing to express mine and everyone else's frustrations with the big red/blue telecom giants.As a customer for both evils, I am appalled at what we as customers are forced to put up with every month. If they could deliver on their contracts (promises seemed to far fetched a word to use) maybe ...
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Phone companies ripping off Canadians
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We are paying a high price compared to other parts of the world. Why is that? I believe it's because we are all working so much to pay the high cost of living here in Canada. We are the dward hamsters on the tread mill, no time to stop. Always running to keep up with how things are.That's just where...
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U.S. protects Monsanto, Dow, Dupont from lawsuits
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With a vote of 318 to 109, the U.S. House has accepted the Senate’s amendments to HR 933. The Senate’s continuing resolution bill, formally known as the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, provides short-term funding to the federal government to the end of the fiscal year.I...
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Truth and Reconciliation over Iraq war
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This is an anniversary not to be celebrated, but observed: Ten years ago, the war against Iraq began. It was based on lies. Demonstrable, easily disproven lies. Lies that were so easy to see that back in October of 2002, when the cause for war was being delivered to Capitol Hill, as a junior Congres...
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Did McDonald's in U.S. exploit exchange students?
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In early March, McDonald’s was caught hijacking a program that’s supposed to allow young people to come to the U.S. for cultural exchange programs and professional training. Instead, the fast food giant twisted it into a source of cheap, exploitable labour.Student workers from Asia and Latin America...
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US farmers may stop planting GMs after poor global yields
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The following artlcle is published in Farm Weekly Magazine: Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts. Farmers in the USA pay about an extra $100 per acre ...
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Skeptics bash homophobic Christian group funding
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